Authorities Smash Botnet Infecting Over Half of Fortune 1000

Earlier this year, Microsoft demonstrated one way to take out a botnet. Earlier this week, Spanish authorities provided another option, namely arresting the botnet handlers. Spanish authorities arrested 3 cyber criminals who were behind the Mariposa botnet, which was one of the largest botnets in the world and, according to investigators, infected PCs in over 40 banks and over half of the Fortune 1,000 companies.

In order to find…